Kabloona in the yellow kayak Book

Victoria Jason was an amazing woman.
When a friend learned I was going to the Arctic on an expedition cruise, she loaned me this Kabloona book. I began reading it before my cruise and finished it when I returned home, being more able then to picture the scenery Victoria describes in her book and to appreciate what she accomplished. I am in awe. Her skills in kayaking, navigating, camping and wilderness survival are evident, and she accepted and adjusted to the vagaries of weather and water conditions and to the discomforts inherent in Arctic travel. She never gave up hope, and she achieved such a laudable feat: 7,500 kilometres over four seasons, the only woman in history to kayak a Northwest Passage solo.
I was full of frustration reading the sections about the two earlier seasons, when she travels with a man (a second man doesn't last long into the first season). She is a paragon of patience.
I can understand now how the North gets into people's blood. As Victoria said: "It's just the freedom, the stillness, the peace and quiet. Once you get hooked on the Arctic, you can't shake it."
It is sad that Victoria Jason died at the relatively young age of 55. But what wonderful experiences she had. (She's not listed in Wikipedia yet. She should be. Maybe that can be rectified....)